[Sigah-l] CFP: DH-CASE II: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments

[Perkins, Jody]

We invite submissions for DH-CASE II: Collaborative Annotations in Shared
Environments: metadata, tools and techniques in the Digital Humanities, to
be
held in conjunction with the ACM Document Engineering 2014 conference.

http://research-it.berkeley.edu/dhcase2014

Digital Humanities is rapidly becoming a central part of humanities
research,
drawing upon tools and approaches from Computer Science, Information
Organization, and Document Engineering to address the challenges of
analyzing
and annotating the growing number and range of corpora that support humanist
scholarship.

== Focus of workshop

>From cuneiform tablets, ancient scrolls, and papyri, to contemporary
letters,
books, and manuscripts, corpora of interest to humanities scholars span the
world’s cultures and historic range. More and more documents are being
transliterated, digitized, and made available for study with digital tools.
Scholarship ranges from translation to interpretation, from syntactic
analysis
to multi-corpus synthesis of patterns and ideas. Underlying much of
humanities
scholarship is the activity of annotation. Annotation of the "aboutness" of
documents and entities ranges from linguistic markup, to structural and
semantic relations, to subjective commentary; annotation of "activity"
around documents and entities includes scholarly workflows, analytic
processes,
and patterns of influence among a community of scholars. Sharable
annotations
and collaborative environments support scholarly discourse, facilitating
traditional practices and enabling new ones.

The focus of this workshop is on the tools and environments that support
annotation, broadly defined, including modeling, authoring, analysis,
publication and sharing. We will explore shared challenges and differing
approaches, seeking to identify emerging best practices, as well as those
approaches that may have potential for wider application or influence.

== Call

We invite contributions related to the intersection of theory, design, and
implementation, emphasizing a "big-picture" view of architectural, modeling
and
integration approaches in digital humanities. Submissions are encouraged
that
discuss data and tool reuse, and that explore what the most successful
levels
are for reusing the products of a digital humanities project (complete
systems?
APIs? plugins/modules? data models?). Submissions discussing an individual
project should focus on these larger questions, rather than primarily
reporting
on the project's activities. This workshop is a forum in which to consider
the
connections and influences between DH annotation tools and environments, and
the tools and models used in other domains, that may provide new approaches
to
the challenges we face. It is also a locus for the discussion of emerging
standards and practices such as OAC (Open Annotation Collaboration) and
Linked
Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LODLAM).

See also: http://research-it.berkeley.edu/dhcase2014/cfp

== Submission procedures

Papers should be submitted at www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhcase2014
.
An abstract of up to 400 words must be submitted by June 1st, and the
deadline
for full papers (6 to 8 pages) is June 8, 2014. Submissions will be
reviewed by
the program committee and selected external reviewers. Papers must follow
the
ACM SIG Proceedings format.

Up to three papers of exceptional quality/impact will be invited to submit
an
extended abstract (2-4 pages) for inclusion in the DocEng 2014 conference
proceedings.

== Key dates:

June 1    Abstracts due (400 words max)
June 8    Full workshop papers due
June 30   Notification of acceptance to workshop. Up to 3 papers may be
invited
to submit extended abstracts
Sept. 16  Workshop

We look forward to seeing you in Ft. Collins!

Workshop Organizers: Patrick Schmitz, Laurie Pearce, Quinn Dombrowski


Jody Perkins
Digital Scholarship Librarian / Metadata Specialist
Center for Digital Scholarship
Miami University Libraries
perkintj at miamioh.edu
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